Hunting in Sicily. A new bill concerning the discipline of hunting that bears the signature of the parliamentarians Clemente and Germanà was presented and approved in the III Commission of the ARS.
ARS parliamentarians, Roberto Clemente and Nino Germanà, are at the forefront of approving a new hunting law containing "changes and additions to the rules for the protection, protection and increase of wildlife, and for the regulation of hunting ", hesitated by the III commission at the ARS, the one concerning productive activities, and destined to be addressed by the Chamber.
The two deputies highlight how the old legislation, promulgated 17 years ago, did not solve the problems that emerged at the time, cyclically re-proposing - in spite of the supplementary and corrective measures - the same critical issues, first of all that of the abnormal expansion of the populations of boar. "About seventeen years have passed since the promulgation of regional law no.1 of 1997 September 33 which, acknowledging the principles of the reform law, law no.11 of 1992 February 157, regulated hunting and related activities in our region - say the deputies Roberto Clemente and Nino Germanà ”.
"Despite various supplementary and corrective interventions that have occurred in recent years, - continue the parliamentarians - the problems that emerged since its first application have remained intact: problems that have materialized in the continuous appeals of environmental associations to the administrative judge regarding times and huntable species, in abandonment of the territory to itself due to the never set up management committees of the territorial hunting areas, in the abnormal expansion of the populations of Boar that enormous damage is causing to the ecosystem inside and outside the protected areas, just to name a few ”.
“From these premises - affirm the two parliamentarians - the idea of proceeding with a complete revision of the current LR n. 33/1997: revision which in addition to stemming said problems, incorporates that part of the state discipline omitted in the original draft of the regional law. We refer to the discipline of fixed stalking, derogations, selection hunting, the opening of hunting in the forest domains, the last closure of the hunting activity moved to February 10, the unification of the AA.TT.CC. sub-provinces in a single ATC, the possibility of confirming the AA.TT.CC. in which you have been admitted in the previous hunting season for free and through a simple email to the territorially competent division, of the revision of the current hunting fauna plan and of the legal regime relating to the Special Protection Areas and to the Sites of Community Importance, and much more still. It will soon be the Chamber that will definitively give legal existence to the provision, so that Sicilian hunters can enjoy a modern tool for managing the fauna and hunting activity ”.
(September 24, 2015)
Source: Press release